Pre-pandemic, most organizations had digital transformation projects in place for migrating their workloads to more modern, cloud-based infrastructures. When the pandemic hit, these digital transformation projects didn’t necessarily change. However, the onslaught of acute challenges brought on by the pandemic caused organizations to dramatically accelerate their digital transformation and infrastructure modernization plans. Suddenly grappling with the necessity of remote work, thinner operating margins and evolving customer needs, organizations recognized a savior in fast, nimble and relatively affordable cloud technology.
Accelerated infrastructure modernization is a positive side-effect of the pandemic. With rapid, widespread cloud adoption, more organizations gain the ability to bring new applications and services to market faster, reduce the cost and complexity of their database operations, and provide greater overall flexibility and accessibility. But it can also be a disaster if organizations, so motivated to accelerate their digital transformation projects as a result of the pandemic, neglect to also accelerate their security. Workload migration into the Cloud cannot be done without also migrating security controls and good security practices.